[Hoot Gibson]

Was what Harry Reid said untrue? As I remember it, he said, basically, that Obama's light skin color and language inflection would help him win votes in white America. Are you suggesting that what he said is inaccurate? or uncomfortable? And, before you ask, yes, it was a horrible "wish I hadn't said it" for Reid.

Reid's statements, as well as Matthews', is a reflection of the attitude that liberals have of black Americans. In white liberal circles, African-Americans can only be successful in this country with the help of good people such as themselves. What Reid basically said, was that Obama could pass for a white because of his light skin and ability to speak without a black dialect (except when he wanted to), and this would allow him to fool American racists into voting for him. The comment was not so much an insult to Obama as it was an insult to millions of American voters.

This is why men and women such as Justice Thomas and former Sec. of State, Condi Rice are so hated and viciously attacked by the left. Their success and their acceptance by conservatives does not fit the racial profile that liberals have concocted, so they represent dangerous threats to the liberal orthodoxy.